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It took everyone a while to figure out what the Supreme Court final verdict in Silvio Berlusconi’s tax fraud case meant in practice. Let’s start from the easiest part: the four-year prison sentence has been definitively upheld. As we explained here, Be…

Supreme Court judges in Rome have started deliberating, and the final verdict in Silvio Berlusconi’s tax fraud case is expected by this evening. The former Italian Prime Minister is appealing against a four-year jail sentence and a five-year public off…

Last month, we wrote on this blog that Silvio Berlusconi’s well-known ‘Ruby trial’ posed no immediate threat to the stability of Italy’s coalition government. Instead, we noted, the real risk was the less titillating ‘Mediaset trial’ – where Berlusconi…